We know video is very important to ATI, and its next generation R520XT won't be an exception here. ATI plans to offer wide video feature set with its R520 and plans to brand it as Avivo.

The two most important features that you will see in the R520 video engine are going to be hardware support for H.264 or should we say High Definition video, and second feature of Radeon X1800XT, the flagship R520XT, known as a dual link DVI support.

You kind of need it for displays such as Apple's 30-inch cinema HD display. This beast has support for 2560x1600 resolution and not too many cards can support it. It's interesting to note that none of the other R520 variations of RV530 won't support dual link DVI.

We believe that it doesn’t make much sense, as this display is incredibly expensive and only the richest of the rich in the richfest arena will go for it.

We expect that our NDA (non disclosure agreement) colleagues will tell you about Vivo, if not today then very soon.